On Twenty Five Years Of Social Epistemology

Author : James H. Collier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
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Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134911288

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On Twenty-Five Years of Social Epistemology by James H. Collier Pdf

This edited collection charts the development of, and prospects for, conceiving knowledge as a social phenomenon. The origin, aims and growth of the journal Social Epistemology, founded in 1987, serves to anchor each of the book’s contributions. Each contribution offers a unique, but related, insight on current issues affecting the organization and production of knowledge. In addition, each contribution proposes necessary questions, practices and frameworks relevant to the rapidly changing landscape of our conceptions of knowledge. The book examines the commercialization of science, the neoliberal university, the status and conduct of philosophy, the cultures of computer software and social networking, the practical, political and anthropological applications of social epistemology, and how we come to define what human beings are and what activities human beings can, and should, sustain. A diverse group of noted, international scholars lends necessary, original and challenging perspectives on our collective approach to knowledge. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Epistemology.

Author : James H. Collier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134911219

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On Twenty-Five Years of Social Epistemology by James H. Collier Pdf

This edited collection charts the development of, and prospects for, conceiving knowledge as a social phenomenon. The origin, aims and growth of the journal Social Epistemology, founded in 1987, serves to anchor each of the book’s contributions. Each contribution offers a unique, but related, insight on current issues affecting the organization and production of knowledge. In addition, each contribution proposes necessary questions, practices and frameworks relevant to the rapidly changing landscape of our conceptions of knowledge. The book examines the commercialization of science, the neoliberal university, the status and conduct of philosophy, the cultures of computer software and social networking, the practical, political and anthropological applications of social epistemology, and how we come to define what human beings are and what activities human beings can, and should, sustain. A diverse group of noted, international scholars lends necessary, original and challenging perspectives on our collective approach to knowledge. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Epistemology.

Author : James H. Collier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783482672

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The Future of Social Epistemology by James H. Collier Pdf

Offers a vital, unique and agenda-setting perspective for the field of social epistemology – the philosophical basis for prescribing the social means and ends for pursuing knowledge.

Author : Ana Cordeiro dos Santos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135219673

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The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics by Ana Cordeiro dos Santos Pdf

Any experimental field consists of preparing special conditions for examining interesting objects for research. So naturally, the particular ways in which scientists prepare their objects determine the kind and the content of knowledge produced. This book provides a framework for the analysis of experimental practices - the Social Epistemology of Experiment - that incorporates both the ‘material’ and the ‘social’ dimensions of knowledge production. The Social Epistemology of Experiment is applied to experimental economics and in so doing, it introduces the epistemic role of the participation of human subjects in experiments and the causal efficacy of institutions in constraining and enabling human behaviour. It also develops the role of the social and socially established practices in overcoming the methodological difficulties associated with experimenting with humans subjects in the social sciences as well as the effect of scientists’ interventions in the laboratory worlds. This book provides an historical and contextualized account of the emergence of experimental economics, the methodological discussions that have informed and constituted it, its main research programmes, and stylized facts. The analysis of its three main research programmes – market experiments, game theory experiments and individual decision-making experiments – shows how economics experiments are particularly tailored to produce knowledge about market institutions and individual behaviour in contexts where there might be conflicts of individual and social goals, and also about the processes of individual decision-making.

Author : Natalie Alana Ashton,Martin Kusch,Robin McKenna,Katharina Anna Sodoma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429581274

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Social Epistemology and Relativism by Natalie Alana Ashton,Martin Kusch,Robin McKenna,Katharina Anna Sodoma Pdf

This is the first book to explore the connections and interactions between social epistemology and epistemic relativism. The essays in the volume are organized around three distinct philosophical approaches to this topic: 1) foundational questions concerning deep disagreement, the variability of epistemic norms, and the relationship between relativism and reliabilism; 2) the role of relativistic themes in feminist social epistemology; and 3) the relationship between the sociology of knowledge, philosophy of science, and social epistemology. Recent trends in social epistemology seek to rectify earlier work that conceptualized cognitive achievements primarily on the level of isolated individuals. Relativism insists that epistemic judgements or beliefs are justified or unjustified only relative to systems of standards—there is not neutral way of adjudicating between them. By bringing together these two strands of epistemology, this volume offers unique perspectives on a number of central epistemological questions. Social Epistemology and Relativism will be of interest to researchers working in epistemology, feminist philosophy, and the sociology of knowledge.

Author : Miranda Fricker,Peter J. Graham,David Henderson,Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317511489

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The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology by Miranda Fricker,Peter J. Graham,David Henderson,Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen Pdf

Edited by an international team of leading scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is the first major reference work devoted to this growing field. The Handbook’s 46 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time, and written by philosophers and social theorists from around the world, are organized into eight main parts: Historical Backgrounds The Epistemology of Testimony Disagreement, Diversity, and Relativism Science and Social Epistemology The Epistemology of Groups Feminist Epistemology The Epistemology of Democracy Further Horizons for Social Epistemology With lists of references after each chapter and a comprehensive index, this volume will prove to be the definitive guide to the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of social epistemology.

Author : Joan Wallach Scott,Debra Keates
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691228389

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Schools of Thought by Joan Wallach Scott,Debra Keates Pdf

Schools of Thought brings together a cast of prominent scholars to assess, with unprecedented breadth and vigor, the intellectual revolution over the past quarter century in the social sciences. This collection of twenty essays stems from a 1997 conference that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. The authors, who represent a wide range of disciplines, are all associated with the School's emphasis on interpretive social science, which rejects models from the hard sciences and opts instead for a humanistic approach to social inquiry. Following a preface by Clifford Geertz, whose profound insights have helped shape the School from the outset, the essays are arranged in four sections. The first offers personal reflections on disciplinary changes; the second features essays advocating changes in focus or methodology; the third presents field overviews and institutional history; while the fourth addresses the link between political philosophy and world governance. Two recurring themes are the uses (and pitfalls) of interdisciplinary studies and the relation between scholarship and social change. This book will be rewarding for anyone interested in how changing trends in scholarship shape the understanding of our social worlds. The contributors include David Apter, Kaushik Basu, Judith Butler, Nicholas Dirks, Jean Elshtain, Peter Galison, Wolf Lepenies, Jane Mansbridge, Andrew Pickering, Mary Poovey, Istvan Rev, Renato Rosaldo, Michael Rustin, Joan W. Scott, William H. Sewell, Jr., Quentin Skinner, Charles Taylor, Anna Tsing, Michael Walzer, and Gavin Wright.

Author : Steve Fuller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253340691

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Social Epistemology by Steve Fuller Pdf

This is the book that launched the research program of social epistemology, which has fuelled imaginations and provoked debates across many disciplines around the world. Its opening question remains as pressing as ever: How should knowledge production be organised. The second edition contains a substantial new introduction, in which Fuller reflects on social epistemology's place in the history of analytic and continental epistemology and discusses the inspiration he has drawn from a wide variety of fields in the humanities and social sciences. It also includes a spirited attack on alternative philosophical groundings for social epistemology and a detailed response to the standard criticism that social epistemology has received from realist philosophers and natural scientists during the "Science Wars."In Social Epistemology Fuller seeks to reconcile normative philosophy of science and empirical sociology of knowledge. He reinterprets key problems in the philosophy of science, such as realism, the nature of objectivity, the demarcation of science from other disciplines, and the nature of our knowledge of other times and places. In the course of this reinterpretation, which draws on concepts and arguments from many branches of the humanities and social sciences, Fuller considers such philosophically neglected questions as: How is the burden of proof determined in science? On what basis is the historian licensed to say that a "consensus" has been reached on a scientific claim? What implications do our patently imperfect means of linguistic transmission have for the notion that science "retains and accumulates" knowledge? Finally, Fuller proposes a course of "Knowledge Policy Studies" designed to make the theory of knowledge a branch of political theory and thereby to hasten the evolution of the epistemologist into a knowledge policy maker. In its new edition, the book remains a provocative contribution to the debate on the production, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in the sciences.

Author : Sukhbir Singh (Librarian)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Library science
ISBN : UCAL:B4198033

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Twenty Five Years of Library Science Writings by Sukhbir Singh (Librarian) Pdf

Author : Frederick F. Schmitt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847679594

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Socializing Epistemology by Frederick F. Schmitt Pdf

In this wide-ranging collection of never before published essays, distinguished scholars in the fields of philosophy and economics examine such questions as whether testimony is a basic source of knowledge, the degree to which notions of a good argument are determined by speakers and their audiences, the role of individual biases in the development of science, and the social aspects of group belief and group justification. The collection ends with the first comprehensive bibliography of social epistemology.

Author : J. Adam Carter,Andy Clark,Jesper Kallestrup,S. Orestis Palermos,Duncan Pritchard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192521903

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Socially Extended Epistemology by J. Adam Carter,Andy Clark,Jesper Kallestrup,S. Orestis Palermos,Duncan Pritchard Pdf

Socially Extended Epistemology explores the epistemological ramifications of one of the most important research programmes in contemporary cognitive science: distributed cognition. In certain conditions, according to this programme, groups of people can generate distributed cognitive systems that consist of all participating members. This volume brings together a range of distinguished and early career academics, from a variety of different perspectives, to investigate the very idea of socially extended epistemology. They ask, for example: can distributed cognitive systems generate knowledge in a similar way to individuals? And if so, how, if at all, does this kind of knowledge differ from normal, individual knowledge? The first part of the volume examines foundational issues, including from a critical perspective. The second part of the volume turns to applications of this idea, and the new theoretical directions that it might take us. These include the ethical ramifications of socially extended epistemology, its societal impact, and its import for emerging digital technologies.

Author : Alvin I. Goldman,Dennis Whitcomb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social epistemology
ISBN : IND:30000127755605

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Social Epistemology by Alvin I. Goldman,Dennis Whitcomb Pdf

What if anything justifies us in believing the testimony of others? How should we react to disagreement between ourselves and our peers, and to disagreement among the experts when we ourselves are novices? Can beliefs be held by groups of people in addition to the people composing thosegroups? And if so, how should groups go about forming their beliefs? How should we design social systems, such as legal juries and scientific research-sharing schemes, to promote knowledge among the people who engage in them? When different groups of people judge different beliefs to bejustified, how can we tell which groups are correct? These questions are at the heart of the vital discipline of social epistemology. The classic articles in this volume address these questions in ways that are both cutting-edge and easy to understand. This volume will be of great interest toscholars and students in epistemology.

Author : Michael S. Brady,Miranda Fricker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191077746

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The Epistemic Life of Groups by Michael S. Brady,Miranda Fricker Pdf

Social epistemology has been flourishing in recent years, expanding and making connections with political philosophy, virtue epistemology, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy. The philosophy of the social world too is flourishing, with burgeoning work in the metaphysics of the social world, collective responsibility, group action, and group belief. The new philosophical vista now more clearly presenting itself is collective epistemology—the epistemology of groups and institutions. Groups engage in epistemic activity all the time—whether it be the active collective inquiry of scientific research groups or crime detection units, or the evidential deliberations of tribunals and juries, or the informational efforts of the voting population in general—and yet in philosophy there is still relatively little epistemology of groups to help explore these epistemic practices and their various dimensions of social and philosophical significance. The aim of this book is to address this lack, by presenting original essays in the field of collective epistemology, exploring these regions of epistemic practice and their significance for Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Science.

Author : Sanford C. Goldberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192598417

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Foundations and Applications of Social Epistemology by Sanford C. Goldberg Pdf

This volume collects twelve essays by Sanford C. Goldberg on the topic of social epistemology. The collection falls into two halves: the first half develops a proposal for a programme for social epistemology, its animating vision, foundational questions, and core concepts; the other half focuses on applications of this programme to particular topics. Goldberg characterizes the research programme as the exploration of the epistemic significance of other minds. This programme is dedicated to an examination of the various ways in which we depend epistemically on others, and to describe the proper way to evaluate beliefs according to the sort of dependence they exhibit. It thus provides the basis for identifying and characterizing various dysfunctions of our epistemic communities. The programme is put into practice by exploring such topics as the epistemic agency exhibited in inquiry, the practices that constitute news coverage, the basis for allegations of what we or others should have known, how reliance on another's testimony contrasts with reliance on an instrument, our reliance on others as consumers of testimony, and the epistemic significance of non-epistemic social norms—moral, political, professional, or relationship-based.

Author : Adrian Haddock,Duncan Pritchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social epistemology
ISBN : 0191595187

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Social Epistemology by Adrian Haddock,Duncan Pritchard Pdf

Recent epistemology has reflected a growing interest in the social dimension of the subject. This volume presents new work by leading philosophers on a wide range of topics in social epistemology, such as the nature of testimony, the epistemology of disagreement, and the social genealogy of the concept of knowledge.